I want to support #Purism as a social purpose corporation by buying their #phone. Purism earns money on selling hardware. Although you can also take a totally optional subscription to support the development of the #PureOS operating system.
With phones from Android companies that run PmOS, you are less supporting the #MobileLinux eco system imo.
Purism initiated e.g. #phosh.
I'm not really using convergence, as I have other computers.
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@inderix I use a #Librem5 as my daily phone for over three years.
The Librem 5 is not bloated with proprietary software.
Also note, that #Purism only at the selling time earns on you. They do not build profiles of their customers to sell.
The operating system, #PureOS, for the Librem 5 is maintained, and an upgrade is in the works.
See here how I started using the Librem 5 as an experiment:
https://janvlug.org/blog/one-week-librem-5-field-trial-day-1/
Yes, there is some inconvenience, but I accept that for my #freedom.
The CEO of #Purism, the company behind the only smartphone made in the U.S.—says the Trump T1 device actually matches the specifications of a Wingtech phone made in China.
#Librem5 #FOSS #MobileLinux #DigitalSovereignty #phone #linux #privacy
Experts pointed out striking similarities between the T1’s specifications and an already available, Chinese-made phone.
“Unless the Trump family secretly built out a secure, onshore or nearshore (fabrication) operation over years of work without anyone noticing, it’s simply not possible to deliver what they’re promising,” said Todd Weaver, CEO of @purism one of the only known companies to actually manufacture a cell phone in the United States.
@kkeijzer
mijn telefoon.
Ik gebruik ook geen XMPP, maar wel Matrix (Fractal werkt goed op de #Librem5)
https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Fractal
Het is ook cool dat de software nog steeds onderhouden wordt. Een upgrade van het hele besturingssysteem (#PureOS) is in de maak. De huidige versie heet Byzantium, de aankomende #Crimson.
Hier kun je de ontwikkelingen volgen:
https://source.puri.sm/groups/pureos/-/milestones/1#tab-issues
Als je enige affiniteit hebt met de waarden van #Purism (#FOSS), dan zou ik de Librem 5 zeker eens proberen.
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Secure Supply Chain- Liberty Phone.
Secure from source to shipment.
Purism's Made in USA electronics, manufactured securely since 2018.
Learn More at Purism: https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/
#SupplyChainSecurity #Purism
> no first class citizen Linux Mobile device
The phosh page here https://phosh.mobi/about/ explains that phosh was initiated by #Purism for the Librem 5 phone, so I think #Librem5 should be seen as a first class citizen Linux Mobile device. They do exist! 🙂
Read the April Crimson development report by #Purism.
Crimson will be the next version of PureOS, the operating system for Purism devices like the freedom respecting Librem 5.
There have been several #Linux kernel improvements for the #Librem5 phone.
Work on packaging continues.
Thanks to all who made this possible, by their work on this, by their subscriptions, or otherwise!
https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-april-2025/
[. . . 2 of 2 thread on binary fractal in computing]
Take the following real world network structure as an illustration of that point. #Purism provides a mobile network service called AweSIM. That is a private company network inside of T-mobile which is owned by Deutsche Telecom which operates in many countries around the world. The internet backbone is inside the US (with various intercept points throughout) but the nature of the internet is global. The internet is not a local intranet.
We’ve all seen illustrations of scale that take the following form: your house, your country, your planet, the solar system, the milky way. Computing and networking are essentially re-namings of scale relationships.
AweSIM is a VPN (plus mobile network) inside an ISP inside a global internet. There may be further subdivisions inside that “VPN.” What if you used a “VPN” inside a VPN, a walled network inside another walled network? We do all the time. https inside a VPN is not entirely visible to the VPN. SSL and private DNS still encrypts even if the domain name can be known by the network provider. For even greater privacy, a circuit of connections can be connected to multiple circuits of proxies just as a VPN can take multiple hops (i.e Tor). So really, it is all a matter of sub- and super- division in addition to certain other network design principles.
You can even think in terms of this scale paradigm when people start moaning that FTP is plaintext. The real reason my friends like this protocol is that FTP also stands for F the Police. https://ftp. - is not plaintext. It is like a VPN inside a ISP; an non-encrypted domain inside encryption. Do you think an onionsite is plaintext if it is http: //56randomcharacters .onion? Remember, just http and no s! No, of course not.
The question is: where is the wall of your scale and who has permission to get in?
#FTP #Encryption #Security #networking #CS #Tor #VPN #ISP #Scale
Secure Supply Chain- Liberty Phone.
Secure from source to shipment.
Purism's Made in USA electronics, manufactured securely since 2018.
Learn More at Purism: https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/
🇺🇸 How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
｢ It’s the Liberty Phone, which is made by a company called Purism. The phone is a version of Purism’s Librem 5. The Made-in-China Librem 5 costs $800, and the Liberty phone costs $2,000. It has 4 GB of memory, and reviewers say that its specs are pretty outdated ｣
https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-phone-phone-is-manufactured/
Not all companies are like this:
"At @purism #privacy isn’t a toggle buried deep within a settings menu; it’s the foundation of everything we build. Our devices—like the #Librem5 smartphone and #Librem14 laptop—run on free and #opensource software (#FOSS) , ensuring that users have full #transparency and #control over their data.
Unlike Meta, #Purism does not monetize personal information."
Read more, also about their Digital Bill of Rights, at:
https://puri.sm/posts/privacy-on-trial-metas-doj-battle-vs-purisms-user-centric-philosophy/
@drew_belloc @noodlejetski I don't have a dock either. I do have a favourites row though, and currently these are the pinned apps (arranged in no particular order):
2. Chats (#Chatty) by Purism & GNOME - supports #SMS, #Matrix, #XMPP
3. Contacts by GNOME
4. #Firefox web browser by #Mozilla
6. GNOME Settings
7. #Phosh Mobile Settings
8. Tweaks by #postmarketOS
9. #Tuba (client for #Mastodon / #Fediverse)
11. #DeltaChat ( #openstandards-based, #securityaudited, fast #e2ee chats over bloody #email!)
12. Files / #Nautilus by GNOME
All #FreeSoftware /Libre, #OpenSource #FOSS / #FLOSS : )
Note: The home screen and the app drawer / search / overview is all one and the same.
#FreedomTech #LibreTech #Librem5 #LibertyPhone #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #LinuxPhones #gnuLinux #softwarefreedom #BreakTheDuopoly
@itsfoss recent #Lenovo #Thinkpad #Laptop like T14 Gen 5 has pretty decent #repairability score:
https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/laptop-repairability-scores
Not as good as #framework but it is still good to have alternatives.
Be aware of proprietary binary blobs in #firmware and #bios hence I can recommend to also have a look here for other great #laptops:
https://www.coreboot.org/
https://puri.sm/
https://system76.com/
https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform
And more here: https://pad.hacc.space/green-hardware-ranking?view#Laptops--desktops--mini-PCs
#ifixit #right2repair #rightToRepair #coreboot #libreboot #purism #system76 #MNT #mnt_reform
@richardwonka Personally, I care mainly about the conditions under which a product is made. I'm thinking here of labor rights, environmental impact, etc. For me the nation of origin is less important, but some nations or regions have better regulations regarding labor and environment.
Also, software wise: FOSS is made by a world wide community.
#Purism produces the Liberty Phone and the Librem key in the USA:
If you want to exercise your digital civil #freedom and #autonomy, and if you want to support the development of a #privacy focused #Linux phone and its operating system, head over the the #Purism shop and order a #Librem5. They are in stock.
Note that the Librem 5 is a phone that is designed from the bottom to run Linux. It is not a phone with Android originals that is now running a Linux distribution.
You fully control the phone.
The work on upgrading the operating system for the #Librem5 Linux phone is progressing well.
The work on this is funded by #Purism and people that have totally optional PureOS subscriptions.
The name of the official Purism #Linux distribution for the Librem5 is #PureOS.
The current version is #Byzantium, the next version will be #Crimson.
Taking an PureOS subscription helps funding.
There is huge progress lately, read the progress report for March 2025 here:
https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-march-2025/
Many cheaper phones are built for surveillance. They keep spying on you in order to keep earning money on you when you use the phone. The #Purism products, also the #Librem5, do not spy on you, so the moment of the sell is the only point where Purism earns money.
I've been using a Librem 5 for nearly three years as my daily phone now. It is a great pleasure to exercise my #freedom and digital rights, and to be fully in control of the device I bought.
